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sample weights in women file [message #19131]

Thu, 23 April 2020 12:48

Laxmi Sharma
Messages: 3
Registered: November 2019

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Hello,

I am trying to find out effect of education on mensuration hygienic methods and I am using district fixed effect .

When I am using sample weights in fixed effect model ,
gen wgt =sample_weights/1000000
gen id = state*1000 +distt
xtset id
xtreg san_nap own_edu hsbnd_edu i.wealth_index i.cast_trib i.religion i.place_type i.grouped_age [pw=wgt] ,fe cluster(id)

I am getting error weight must be constant within id.

I do not understand why ??

Thanks

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Re: sample weights in women file [message #19222 is a reply to message #19131]

Mon, 11 May 2020 20:12

Trevor-DHS
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Registered: January 2013

Senior Member

You have constructed id as a combination of the state and the district, but it says that the weight must be a constant within id. Weights will vary from cluster to cluster, so you need to include the cluster number in id.

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